American sign language (ASL) is a visual language using hand gestures, facial expressions, and body movements, primarily used by the Deaf community in North America.

Sign language alphabet worksheets are a wonderful way to introduce young children to both their ABCs and American Sign Language (ASL). When I first started using them, I loved how they combined ...

The sign language boards have been installed in children's play areas at Pudsey Park, Horsforth Hall Park and Bramley Park, ...

Learning fingerspelling can be a good place to start with American Sign Language, and can be useful to study even if you aren't hearing-impaired.

Snap is launching a new Snapchat lens, called ASL Alphabet Lens, that can help you learn the American Sign Language (ASL) alphabet. You can try it right now in Snapchat.

British Sign Language (BSL) has a slightly different alphabet for left and right handed people, but the American Sign Language only has a one-handed set.

Beginning in ancient Egypt, NOVA "A TO Z: The First Alphabet" explores some of the first known scribes, and how they discovered that by recording names and histories, it was possible to achieve a ...

This historical account of the development of the manual alphabet in ASL (and of representational systems in other sign languages) traces fingerspelling back to the monks of the seventh century, who ...

Ryan Patterson's award-winning sign language translator uses a leather golf glove with 10 sensors, a micro controller and a radiofrequency transmitter to translate hand signals into printed text ...

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a smart glove that wirelessly translates the American Sign Language alphabet into text and controls a virtual hand to mimic sign ...

Someone who wishes to learn the sign language alphabet slips on a glove outfitted with position sensors for each finger.

The ASL Alphabet lens will show how to fingerspell your name and let you test your sign language fluency.